Chris Carter

@CyWhisp

ALC Update:

New Technology versus

Your Strategy

Providers focused only on MTPE

Many small piecesVolunteersCrowdsourcing

“revolutionary”“certified” / “qualified”“prof. LSPs do the PE”

MARKETING

PROCESS INVESTORS

VC becoming interestedex. Unbabel: $1.5 MM

BUT

Increasing Featurization of MT

Twitter adds Bing Translate

WeChat adds MT to messaging

Voxox adds MT to messaging app

Yappn Corp. selling MT widgets to e-commerce companies

“Real Time Interpretation” Threat

Automatic Voice

Recognition+

Machine Translation

+Voice

Synthesis

Android app‘conversation mode’

HP MyRoom,cheap for businessesfree for classrooms

Offers RTI to customersof French telecomm

company SFRJapanese telecomm company offers RTI to own customers

via “Hanashite Hon’yaku”

French telecomm equipment company

offers RTI via “WeTalk”APPS!

U-Star, iTranslate, etc.Except no voice synthesis

not-to-market…… yet

Facebook buys Wit.aiThey develop code as API for

3rd-party speech recognition systems

SpeechTrans building new devicesStarting to develop apps as plugins

to make voice recognition for smart home devices multilingual;

Working on smart wristband that does nothing but RTI

Student creates program that learns sign languages

By PhD student Binyam Gebrekidan Gebre, has learned and can identify and transcribe six sign languages, so far, using a camera

?

So are you innovating,

or being replaced?